"I had thought the parallels would be more obvious," he says. "The conquest of this world, like the conquest of the Queenscourt, would have been a complex and difficult task with negligible room for error. The Queenscourt order set is exquisitely well crafted to avoid interfering with itself, and even so, if I was required to do something this difficult to the best of my ability, that would necessarily include being under no other orders for the duration of the task."